The Sound of Type investigates whether typographic characters can be given an independent acoustic form of expression in addition to their ‘usual’ phonetic meaning. In experimental arrangements constructed for each experiment and typographic context, sounds were created that form the basis of eight tracks, which were recorded analog on vinyl and released digitally as a stream. The experiments and their theoretical background are presented and explained in an accompanying booklet (in the format of an LP cover). The themes of the tracks range from the musicalization of the graphic forms of individual letters to the synesthetic perception of Braille, the acoustic translation of serif and sans serif fonts into the Morse alphabet, and an examination of the frequency distribution of letters and the timbre of handwritten letters.